Whit Weeks (born January 7, 2005) is an

American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...

linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and typically line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and so back up the defensive linemen. They play closer to the line ...

for the

LSU Tigers The LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers (also known as the Fighting Tigers) are the athletic teams representing Louisiana State University (LSU), a state university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. LSU competes in Division I of the National Collegiat ...

Early life

Weeks attended

Oconee County High School Oconee County High School is a public secondary school in Watkinsville, Georgia, United States. It is a public high school that hosts grades 9–12. It is one of two high schools in the Oconee County Public Schools district. Its mascot is the Wa ...

Watkinsville, Georgia Watkinsville is the largest city and county seat of Oconee County, Georgia, Oconee County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 2,896. It served as the seat of Clarke County, Georg ...

. As a senior he was the Region 8-3A Player of the Year of he had 104 tackles, two sacks and three interceptions. He committed to

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as Louisiana State University (LSU), is an American Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louis ...

(LSU) to play college football.

College career

As a true freshman at LSU in 2023, Weeks played in 11 games with three starts and had 50 tackles and 0.5 sacks. Weeks entered his sophomore year in 2024 as a starter. Against the

Ole Miss Rebels The Ole Miss Rebels are the 18 men's and women's College sports in the United States, intercollegiate athletic teams that are funded by and represent the University of Mississippi, located in Oxford, Mississippi, Oxford. The first was the Ole ...

, he had 18 tackles and one sack. In 13 total games during the season, Weeks recorded 125 combined tackles, 3.5 sacks, 1 interception, 3 pass deflections, and 2 forced fumbles. On January 2, 2025, Weeks underwent surgery to repair a broken

fibula The fibula (: fibulae or fibulas) or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below. It is the smaller of the two bones and, in proportion to its length, the most slender of all the long bones. ...

that he suffered in the

2024 Texas Bowl The 2024 Texas Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 31, 2024, at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. The 18th annual Texas Bowl game featured Baylor from the Big 12 Conference and LSU from the Southeastern Conference (SEC ...

References

External links

LSU Tigers bio
2005 births Living people Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state) People from Watkinsville, Georgia American football linebackers LSU Tigers football players {{Linebacker-stub